GASTON COUNTY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — A Gaston County man wrongfully convicted of murder is suing the investigators who put him behind bars for nearly a decade.

Mark Carver walked out of prison in 2019, eight years after being sentenced to life for the murder of UNC-Charlotte student Irina Yarmolenko.

Yarmolenko was found strangled on the banks of the Catawba River in 2008.

In 2022, Carver's murder charge was dropped.

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He's now suing the city of Mount Holly, one of the prosecutors, and investigators with several police agencies that worked on the case.

Carver claims in the lawsuit that they "misrepresented evidence, disregarded evidence, and manipulated evidence...to manufacture the case for arrest."

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